Ah jeez. Found a couple things I was screwing up with. Are you guys having to rename the validation file and add on the ".cvf" extension? Don't remember having to do that. I was having issues before having the validation accept it, but it takes files named "8400_3600.cvf.cvf" which just seems odd.

I'll fix my BIOS profiles and go back to my prior post and update it. Hopefully later this afternoon. 4-4-3-12 still feels a bit loose as the old profile had it at 3-3-3-9. Perhaps it's just this buggy beta bios getting short term memory loss or something. I gotta hurry and get what I can from the E8400 as the Xeon 3350 looks stupid just sitting there staring at me.

The 925 is a great little chipset! I miss that thing. Sadly I can't find a reason to fire the old thing up. Even at 4+, it pales what other cpu's do stock. Talked about making shadow box computers for the chipset lineage.

It is a dog in comparison to an E21xx or even a D but its a complete spare computer I got free and the OC only cost the little amount of ink used from the conductive ink pen. It's also going to double as a file server one of these days.

My only complaint with the 925 is no dual-core support. And this thing was near top-of-the-line 2.5 years ago. But then again its oddball support for the 1066FSB EE is the only reason this OC was possible.

It was surprisingly good at folding for a P4 (AFAIK) with 58x PPD in SMP (HT enabled) at stock, so I'd imagine a nice 33% overclock will only help. Time and a completed WU will tell.

A worry of mine is the core temperature though. There's no temperature/voltage monitoring within the BIOS and SpeedFan can only read the HD temp. Any ideas of how I might get it?

ok so after i took quakindudes advise, and put 100% load on my cpu for a couple hours it got to 58c on my q6600 overcloced to 3.0 GHz
i got a ChillTek Ultra cooler fan for my chip today and overclocked it even further to 3.5GHZ ( correction, as of 4/3/08 im now to 3.6 and done til i goto watercooling)
after running 100%load using prime95 for 2 hours it never went over 41c

its a little high in price, but it looks awsome...lol
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1. prescott 650 from [size=0]3.4 to 4.3 and it stayed at 32C[/size]
2. presler 925 from [size=0]3.0 to 4.0 and it stayed at 33C[/size]
3. kenstfield qx6700 at [size=0]2.66 stayes at 2.66[/size] for 2 reasons, if i could pull another grand from my ass i would over clock it and two, why the hell shouls i over clock it lol, this one under full load gets to 40C but at idle its [size=0]23C[/size] and avrages while in game [size=0]35C[/size]

Ok i posted earlier that i don't overclock my QX6700 well i changeed my mind this thing is freaking awsome lmao all i did was bump the multiplier from stock 10 to 12 no voltage increase no nothing came up 3200 mhz

Which is too bad since I had it quite stable on that clock speed for a while.

And this is on a Thermaltake Big Typhoon... air cooling, that is. >D

I've heard of others being able to push it to 4.0Ghz. I'd LOVE to push it to that limit on air if I could.

This is just from bumping up the CPU multiplier. Dunno if the RAM in my board is linked to the CPU.

Here we go!

My Validation! Wait... what? Single channel? Wtf. Ok, reboot tiem! And hopefully this time it'll be in Dual... NOT single. Someone told me to put it in either 1 and 3 or 2 and 4. I think for this particular board it's 1, 2. then 3 and 4 for Dual channel. In any case... I wonder what it'd look like after that. I have no idea of how to tighten up the RAM timings on this thing so I'm going to leave that alone.Edit 2: Sure enough, for this particular board, Dual channel memory is in 1, 2 and 3, 4. Interesting. I've seen from what others have said that it's usually 1, 3 then 2, 4.

RAID is a very creditable member from another forum...it's just this one time that I can vouch for it without CPUz validation. I've seen this exact validation in another forum and will give the Chumly validation: It's dead on as posted prior at HardWare Logic.

What's happened over here though, RAID, is that we will expect the links to the official validation and not screen caps. If I become tough on the others, I gotta act with moderation and be tough with all. It's not needed here because of the other place, and I'll place my own name on the line saying I saw it.

I'd also like to welcome you officially as you have I, over there. This is the more technical forum and is, in nature, a lot more harsh than HL. We like to see more 4Ghz from cheaper Penryn than that model. We push each other to do better. The education grows from the push! The other place can get ya lost in the battle. The 4Ghz run on the 2.66 Penryn is the apparent cap on reliability. With that memory and a better board, I think we can see more. I feel the 780i is holding you back just a notch. Not a lot!

Haha...I got warned that I must slow down on entrance over there, and I'm telling you to speed up over here. Irony at it's best!

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